John Lee wrote:
Nobody's disputing that in some cases, these restrictions improve the encyclopaedia. To assert that we improve the encyclopaedia by removing links to any blog or forum which harasses our editors is a bit of a stretch, nevertheless. In most cases, we don't link to these sites because there is no good reason to; you are now asserting we should go further and never link to them even if there is a good reason to.
Indeed, by priorising link removal criteria, with emphasis on the more easily defined ones, we would probably find that by the time we got down the list to harassment there wouldn't be many left to fight about.
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